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Rheumatology
Masha Gliner-Ron, Eyal Bercovich, Amir Herman, Merav Lidar, Daniela Militianu, Iris Eshed
Summary: This study validates the theory that thoracic right-sided osteophytes in DISH patients with right-sided aorta are a result of the pulsating left-sided thoracic aorta's protective effect. The majority of osteophytes were found contralateral to the aorta's location, while ipsilateral and bilateral osteophytes were also present. Aortic pulsation plays an important role in inhibiting osteophyte development.
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Veterinary Sciences
Masataka Enomoto, Elizabeth A. Baines, Simon C. Roe, Denis J. Marcellin-Little, B. Duncan X. Lascelles
Summary: This study found that the progression rate of radiographic osteoarthritis in canine hip joints varies depending on age and gender. Younger and spayed female dogs tend to have faster progression of osteoarthritis.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
J. C. Alves, Ana Santos, Patricia Jorge, Catarina Lavrador, L. Miguel Carreira
Summary: This study compared the symmetry of clinical and radiographic signs in police working dogs with bilateral hip osteoarthritis. The findings showed significant correlations between weight distribution, age, and radiographic abnormalities, particularly with circumferential femoral head osteophyte (CFHO) on the right limbs.
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Rheumatology
Gary H. Chang, Lisa K. Park, Nina A. Le, Ray S. Jhun, Tejus Surendran, Joseph Lai, Hojoon Seo, Nuwapa Promchotichai, Grace Yoon, Jonathan Scalera, Terence D. Capellini, David T. Felson, Vijaya B. Kolachalama
Summary: This study developed a bone shape measure using neural network technology to accurately reflect the severity of knee osteoarthritis, and validated its accuracy using a large dataset. The measure showed associations with radiographic joint space narrowing, pain and disability levels, and subsequent knee replacement, indicating promise as an imaging marker.
ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATOLOGY
(2021)
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Rheumatology
Christian Hubert Roux, Joel Coste, Coralie Roger, Eric Fontas, Anne-Christine Rat, Francis Guillemin
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of smoking on knee and hip osteoarthritis, finding that current and former smokers developed fewer osteophytes at baseline and after 3 years. Higher tobacco consumption and longer duration of use were associated with fewer osteophytes.
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Rheumatology
Desiree van der Heijde, Mikkel Ostergaard, John D. Reveille, Xenofon Baraliakos, Andris Kronbergs, David M. Sandoval, Xiaoqi Li, Hilde Carlier, David H. Adams, Walter P. Maksymowych
Summary: This study evaluates the long-term effect of IXE on radiographic changes in the spine in patients with r-axSpA and identifies potential predictors of progression. The majority of patients had no radiographic progression in the spine through 2 years of treatment.
JOURNAL OF RHEUMATOLOGY
(2022)
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Rheumatology
Robert Landewe, Luna Sun, Yun-Fei Chen, Daojun Mo, Desiree van der Heijde
Summary: Demonstrating the inhibition of joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis trials is commonly achieved through statistically significant differences in radiographic progression measured by the mTSS. The frequently used ANCOVA+LE method for handling missing data may not be ideal for long-term extension or paediatric studies. The RC model shows better performance in terms of bias, RMSE, power and type I error rate, making it a more sensitive and precise alternative for analysing mTSS in studies with missing data.
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Rheumatology
Irina Gessl, Claudia A. Hana, Thomas Deimel, Martina Durechova, Miriam Hucke, Victoria Konzett, Mihaela Popescu, Paul Studenic, Gabriela Supp, Michael Zauner, Josef S. Smolen, Daniel Aletaha, Peter Mandl
Summary: The study aimed to assess the predictive value of tenderness in non-swollen joints for subsequent radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA), taking into consideration other potential risk factors. Clinical and sonographic examination of hand joints were performed on patients with RA and PsA. The results showed that tenderness in non-swollen joints was associated with radiographic progression in RA, while the impact was weaker in PsA. Other risk factors such as sonographic signs for synovitis and baseline radiographic damage also had an effect on subsequent structural damage in both diseases.
ANNALS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES
(2023)
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Surgery
Brent R. DeGeorge, Sagar S. Chawla, Laura Lewallen, Sanjeev Kakar
Summary: This retrospective study on patients with Kienbock disease who received nonoperative treatment from 1999 to 2014 found that most patients showed significant improvements in pain, grip strength, and Mayo wrist score over time, despite radiographic disease progression. Smoking history was associated with increased radiographic disease progression.
PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
(2021)
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Critical Care Medicine
Elizabeth R. Volkmann, Donald P. Tashkin, Michael D. Roth, Jonathan Goldin, Grace H. J. Kim
Summary: This study demonstrates that short-term changes in radiographic measures of interstitial lung disease (ILD) can predict long-term survival in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), indicating that radiographic end points may serve as surrogates for mortality in SSc-ILD.
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Eun-Jung Park, WooSeong Jeong, Jinseok Kim
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate radiographic outcome and prognostic factors for radiographic progression in patients with seronegative rheumatoid arthritis. It found that radiographic damage and SvdH at diagnosis were predictive factors for progression of radiographic damage in these patients, highlighting the importance of early detection and management strategies.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
(2021)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Dandan Chai, Di Sun, Yuanying Wang, Yawen Song, Na Wu, Qiao Ye
Summary: Nearly one-third of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in this study had preclinical interstitial lung disease (pILD) or interstitial lung disease (ILD), and half of them showed fibrotic progression during follow-up. Factors such as diabetes mellitus (DM), higher Disease Activity Score in 28 joints-Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (DAS28-ESR), and advanced high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scores were identified as independent risk factors for progressive fibrosis in RA-ILD.
FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Biochemical Research Methods
Madhura Mukhopadhyay
Summary: Studying viral tropism is made possible by using stem cell-derived endothelial cell subtypes.
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Rheumatology
Ismail Sari, Seunghun Lee, George Tomlinson, Sindhu R. Johnson, Robert D. Inman, Nigil Haroon
Summary: The study found that male sex, baseline damage, active disease state, and higher inflammatory markers are high-risk factors for predicting spinal progression in ankylosing spondylitis patients. Treatment with TNFi showed a disease-modifying effect by slowing the rate of radiographic progression.
ARTHRITIS CARE & RESEARCH
(2021)
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Rheumatology
Ming-Feng Hsueh, Xin Zhang, Samuel S. Wellman, Michael P. Bolognesi, Virginia B. Kraus
Summary: The study evaluated the role of immune cells and cytokines in the pathogenesis and progression of knee osteoarthritis. The results showed that concentrations of elastase and TGF-beta 1 in SF were associated with the severity of OA progression, indicating their predictive potential for disease progression.
ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATOLOGY
(2021)